In another lesson Alonso and I reviewed personal pronouns, which he is a pro at. I made up a worksheet with fill in the blank questions and answers and then used that to check his knowledge. To start off the lesson we revied the present tense verbs he already knows and then I wrote down some of the sentances he created and pointed out the personal pronouns in each of them. He said he was fairly comfortable using them and that they had gone over them in class recently. However a review never hurts so we worked through the activites I had planned and cleared up the one or two difficulties he had.
That lesson ended more quickly than expected so plan B was to go over describing himself and his past. I have been trying to come up with lesson plans that are going to be useful immediately so that he can put his english to good use as soon as possible. He can be impatient with studying and going over conjugations, so when the activities are really evidently useful he's much happier about participating. (Not that he's a difficult student at all, he'd just rather be up going on adventures or driving fast cars instead of reading verb charts and correcting grammar...who wouldn't? haha)
So I had him write out a brief summary of his life, where he's working, what his family's like, where he went to school. Afterwards we went back and filled in the framwork for the history with more details and more difficult vocabulary. His grammar is getting much better *and* he also has started keeping a book of vocabulary that he encounters so that he can go back and reference it later. All and all it was a pretty neat lesson, not only did he learn some new things, but I got to hear more about his life in Panama too!
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